Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!dukeac!bet From: bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: how come vt100? (was Re: running vi inside GNU emacs vs. ftp-find-file) Message-ID: <1408@dukeac.UUCP> Date: 16 May 89 21:44:12 GMT References: <39714@bbn.COM> <860007@hpcljms.HP.COM> Reply-To: bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd) Organization: Radiology, Duke Med. Center, Durham, NC Lines: 17 In article shapiro@athos.rutgers.edu (Joel Shapiro) writes: >Why a terminal emulator? Because a number of us need to use VMS >vaxes, and like to do it from a Sun window. I have managed to leave VMS completely, praise be, but occasionally have to deal with its heir, terminfo-based UNIX systems. While I could stomp up a terminfo definition to match the termcap definition, I generally say to heck with it and run vtem. Part of the vttool package, it is a simple pty-based filter that maps vt100 sequences onto whatever you've got. If you want something for under Sunview the whole vttool package might be handy, since that wraps a button manager around vtem to give you a mouseable vt100 keypad. I don't use vttool; I like mgr better than Sunview, and I'm allergic to mice. Check the anonymous FTP archives at titan.rice.edu, probably in sun-sources. -Bennett bet@orion.mc.duke.edu